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Rules

Optional and alternative rules.

/hack

Concept: “Hey, kid—combat taking too long? Tired of the same ol’ crit/fumble effects? Then you need /hack.”
Content: A /hack of combat mechanics for Mörk Borg.
Writing: Both “faster” and “brutaler” mechanics that go straight to the hurting bits.
Art/design: Very clean, very yellow, reference sheet.
Usability: Protip – “dice explode” does not mean the dice become shrapnel. 

1d4 Diseases that afflict the weary traveller

Concept: “sleeping outside also puts you at the mercy of smaller monsters, of a different kind, of a different order.”  
Content: 1d4 diseases... well, two are parasites.
Writing: Full of enough flab, worms, and fleas to make your brain itch and your blood boil.
Art/design: Illustration of some sort of medical procedure, and a faint spattering of blood. With strong yellow highlights.
Usability: Definitely not sterile. But those yellow highlights shortcut to the rules. 

7:7 - A Dying Card Game

Concept: “Well, it’s like a Living Card Game, but it’s up to all of you to keep it shambling on in a foetid undead state. Its brains have now been splattered gruesomely across the Mӧrk Borg community, decentralized, disaggregated, dismembered, ready to be resurrected at any time through the BLACK MAGIC of the Third Party License.”
Content:
A Print and Play Card Game with an Open License.
Writing: Flexible rules account for 3 modes of play. With delightfully characterized (and miserable) scvm.
Art/design:
Consistent use of symbolism and color for quick visual reference of card types and stats. Characterful illustrations and public domain art.
Usability:
Usable for 1v1, solo play, or as a prompt for randomized Mörk Borg adventures. Has a flexibility license so you can release your own expansions.

A Less Spiky Flail to the Face

Concept: “LET THEM LIVE AND SUFFER!”
Content: Painfully expanded rules for not dying (ever).
Writing: The kind that makes you wish you were dead (in a good way?).
Art/design: Bright pink and pallid blue false color illustration on a field of yellow and black. The spikes have been crossed out.
Usability: References “Death is not an Escape” by Wayward Polyhedral. 

A Question of Honor

Concept: “Get down in the muck, honorably. Roll in the slime, valiantly. Collect foreskins, to preserve your good name.”
Content:
An optional rule that punishes you for being too dis/honorable and affects encounters and initiative
Writing:
Clear description of the mechanics with plenty of humor worked in (particularly the color text and the offenses and tasks tables)
Art/design:
Works primarily in yellow, pink, white, and black with some red for particular emphasis; some interesting layout and clever typographical effects
Usability:
Some visual friction due to point size and shifts in typefaces, but the issue’s balanced by its brevity

ABBAGEDDON

Concept: “An alternate Miseries prophecy”
Content:
… inspired by ABBA
Writing:
Successfully adapts images and concepts into apocalyptic enigmas
Art/design:
Mimics the Nameless Scriptures’ layout with highlighting for easy reference and textured background for visual variety
Usability:
It’s a really upbeat, peppy apocalypse. From Sweden.

ABXP: A Bloodier eXPerience

Concept: “An all new way to level up your Mork Borg characters by earning Experience points and spending them directly on improving your character how you want, inspired by the Vampire the Masquerade system.”
Content: Xp award and expenditure rules. Undead or goblin curse mechanics. A bloody sanguimancer.
Writing: Just the mechanics. A reliable reference sheet for use at the table.
Art/design: A satisfying blend of art and utility with characterful illustration and a flexible layout. 
Usability: Textured and illustrated but easy to print. A format suitable for front-to-back or full landscape printing. 

Acceptable Casualties

Concept: “Who knows why we're fighting anymore?” 
Content: Rules for WWMörk casualties to live by.
Writing: A dry, technical, and familiar gallows humor reminds us war (and bureaucracy) never dies.
Art/design: The unmoving efficiency of bureaucracy meets the soft tissue of the casualties it consumes.
Usability: Plain text organized by the alphanumeric keys of an old technical manual. 

Album Crawl

19 contributors
Concept: “A collection of deafening dungeons and auditory misadventures for MÖRK BORG.”
Content:
22 music-inspired settings and scenarios; many intriguing rules and foes; alternate Miseries; a whole spread of punishments for unruly dice
Writing:
Variously fascinating and horrifying
Art/design:
Widely variegated but all nicely done
Usability:
A couple atypical layouts that reward a bit of scrutiny and patience

All Things Fragrant and Foul

Concept: “Mork Borg can be overwhelmingly nasty. Why not balance that with some beauty? And also add even more misery. 
Content: New rules, eight classes, and an afterlife-spanning adventure. Also sports.
Writing: A meditation on duality. With a serious tone contained within all its dubious fragrance.
Art/design: A highly interactive and reversible design with upright and inverted text interleaved beautifully.
Usability: Designed for print. Flip the book. My condolences to page 5. 

Apocrypha

Concept: “They thought that all of Anuk Schleger's Scriptures were uncovered. I wish they had been right.”
Content: Rules, Tables, Character Traits, Diseases, Treatment & Body Mods, Dungeons, Bounties, Followers, Gear, Summoning, Monsters, Monstrous Classes. A little of everything.
Writing: A variety show with distinct blends of humor and horror throughout.
Art/design: Dementedly scrawled art and public domain images cut through with Mörk Borgian Design Sensibilities
Usability: Clear rules, table of contents, thoughtful page references at the beginning of the monster section. 

Baited Blood

Concept: “A disease of the blood...”
Content: A cannibal disease of a different kind.
Writing: A wonderfully inversion of a common trope.
Art/design: Black and white blocked plaintext.
Usability: Surprise your favorite scvm. 

Barber’s Guide to Humorism

Concept: “An experiment of King Fathmu IX gone wrong”
Content:
Rules for exploiting the power of bodily humors
Writing:
Provides some brief lore but mostly dedicated to mechanics
Art/design:
Liberal layouts with a stylistic variety of public domain illustrations
Usability:
The medical images child-organ-harvesting lore may be distressing for some players
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